Welcome

I am a PostDoc in the Computer Science Devision at UC Berkeley, working in the AMP Lab on Big Data management and hybrid human/machine database systems. During my PhD at ETH Zurich inside the Systems Group, I explored new architectures for transaction management and stream processing in the cloud. I co-authored one of the first works taking a data management perspective on cloud computing and the first research paper on hybrid human/machine database systems. I received a Swiss National Science Foundation Prospective Researcher Fellowship (2010), a DAAD Scholarship (2006), a University of Sydney Master of Information Technology Scholarship for outstanding achievement (2005), the University of Sydney Siemens Prize (2005), and a VLDB best demo award (2011).

Research Topics

  • Data management in the cloud
  • Hybrid human-machine data management systems
  • Infrastructure for cloud-scale analytics and machine learning
  • New consistency and concurrency control models
  • Data streams/continuous analytics
  • XML query processing

Research Projects

In the following a list of my current and past research projects:

  • CrowdDB - Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing
  • AMPLab - Algorithms, Machines & People
  • Cloudy/Smoky - a distributed storage and streaming service in the cloud
  • Building a database on cloud infrastructure
  • CloudBench - a benchmark for the cloud
  • Zorba - a general purpose XQuery processor implementing in C++
  • MXQuery - A lightweight, full-featured Java XQuery Engine
  • Mapping Data to Queries (MDQ) - data integration with XQuery
  • XQIB - XQuery In the Browser

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University of California at Berkeley
Computer Science Division, EECS
465 Soda Hall #1776
Berkeley, CA 94720

Email:
Phone: +1 (510) 926-5856
Fax: +1 (510) 643-7352

News/Events

  • March 01, 2012
    Agreed to serve on the EuroSys 2013 PC and SOCC 2012 PC
  • January 15, 2012
    Going to attend the first workshop on Data analytics in the Cloud (DanaC)
  • December 15, 2011
    Got invited to the NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud
  • October 4, 2011
    Call for paper for the first workshop on Data analytics in the Cloud (DanaC)
  • October 4, 2011
    Our PIQL paper got accepted at VLDB12
  • September 8, 2011
    The VLDB crowd tutorial slides are online
  • September 1, 2011
    CrowdDB won the BEST DEMO Award at VLDB'11
  • August 30, 2011
    Come to our Crowd Tutorial at VLDB'11
  • July 15, 2011
    Going to present CrowdDB at the HPI-Kolloquium on August 19th
  • July 15, 2011
    Going to give an overview talk about my Cloud-related work at Yahoo on July 27th
  • July 8, 2011
    Going to attend the Dagstuhl seminar on Information Management in the Cloud in August.
  • May 28, 2011
    Our demo CrowdDB: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd got accepted at VLDB 2011
  • May 18, 2011
    Our tutorial Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective got accepted at VLDB 2011
  • March 04, 2011
    Going to give a talk about CrowdDB at Microsoft Research on April 22nd

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